Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Brittas, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brittas
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81747, -6.75564
- SMR number
- ME005-088004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
After the Mesolithic knolls (ME005-088002-, ME005-088003-) had almost been obscured by lake mud a stony platform (dims 9m E-W; 3m plus N-S) was established in the Early to Middle Bronze Age, largely over the E knoll. It was represented by a layer of stones, including fragments of two saddle querns, and two spreads of charcoal (dims 5.8m x 1.85m plus; 1.25m x 0.5m). There were two huts on the platform. This hut (diam. 6m) was the earlier and represented by 15 posts with few finds. (Bradley 1983, 19-20; 1991, 11-12; 1999, 11-13; O’Sullivan 1998, 81-3)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 September 2018
References
Bradley, J. 1982-3 Excavations at Moynagh Lough, Co. Meath 1980-81. Interim Report. Ríocht na Mídhe vol. 7, No. 2, 12-32.
Bradley, J. 1999 Excavations at Moynagh Lough, Co. Meath 1997-98. Ríocht na Mídhe vol. 10, 1-17.
Bradley, J. 1991 Excavations at Moynagh Lough. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 111, 5-26.
O'Sullivan, A. 1998 The archaeology of lake settlement in Ireland. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 4. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.